Tag: corporate media
Media play up protests, play down effect of US sanctions in...
While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.
Key Assange witness recants—with zero corporate media coverage
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson admitted that his entire testimony is false, a revelation that could be the death knell for U.S. attempts to prosecute the Wikileaks founder.
Israel/Palestine coverage presents false equivalency between occupied and occupier
Corporate media have presented Israel’s killing spree as defensive, as a reaction to supposed Palestinian aggression.
Corporate media oppose Afghan control of Afghanistan
Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s announcement demonstrated the imperialist mindset of corporate journalists.
‘Divisive’: How corporate media dismiss ideas unpopular with elites
All too often, words such as “divisive,” “contentious” or “controversial” are used merely as media codewords meaning “ideas unpopular with the ruling elite”—what FAIR calls “not journalistically viable.”
Corporate media’s leaked Chinese documents confirm China didn’t hide Covid-19
It is important for American journalists to combat these misperceptions, so that the U.S. can learn from China’s response on how to better deal with the current crisis.
US media must scrutinize Biden presidency – not celebrate it –...
Journalists and those who hold their purse-strings will have to find a new enemy if they wish to keep their increased ratings – and maybe even their reputation of being a critical eye – intact when Biden becomes president in January.
For US corporate media, not intervening in Chinese politics is journalistically...
The issue, according to U.S. media, isn’t that a government body intended to fund these demonstrations in the first place; it’s that Pack prevented it from doing so.
Corporate media are focusing on race — and dodging class
U.S. news outlets doing decent coverage of police violence can rarely supply clarity about the “free enterprise” economic violence that is taking countless lives.
Class war — not the media hokey pokey — is what...
Maybe you don’t want to call it class war. But whatever you call it, the system always makes a killing.
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The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a ‘partisan standoff’
Did Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster?
The Hard Hat Riot: A forgotten flashpoint in America’s culture wars
The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences—a seminal moment in America’s culture wars.
Effort to give oil companies $97 million tax break in Louisiana halted
The original version of the bill introduced by Rep. Phillip DeVillier this spring would have cost the state $97 million over the next five years.
When will US join global call to end Ukraine War?
There are many peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued by leaders and countries around the world as the United States clings to its dogged determination to prolong the war at great cost in Ukrainian lives and at the risk of nuclear war.
USPS establishes deal with Ford to purchase 9,250 electric vehicles
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that by 2026, all new vehicles will be electric vehicles (EV).